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I have been trying to finish a WIP for the longest time. And usually when I read something it’s like: 11k? that’s like an hour of reading at most, that’s so short.
But now that I’m trying to edit 11k and make some sense of what I had in mind while writing it, I’m like goddamn that’s so many words. Why are there so many???
Silly me thought I could outline like I used to in the olden days. Lizzie, you are 29, and have been out of creative writing classes for years, of course you can't write an outline in thirty minutes.
Silly me.
just saw the reblog now but
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hehe <33
🍊 Who’s a character you don’t write for that often, but keep meaning to write for more?
Maybe Luisa, I think she is great, her personality and her meaning in the movie all that- writing about her is definitely always giving me a good thought, nothing can make me upset about her 🙌 (besides her trauma)
🍈 Who’s your blorbo and what are some of your favorite headcanons/ideas about them that repeatedly show up in your fics? Free pass to rant about blorbo opinions.
Dolores madrigal my girl 🙌 firstly I love the hc that her favorite food are strawberries- anything related to it basically! Another food related thing is that she is a picky eater since she was little!! It definitely slowed down as she got older but her pickiness is often visible. Definitely has sensory issues, also a thing from childhood! she definitely didn’t use to know the difference between being rude or honest till she was 16, she would blurt something out and people would be shocked 😨 she also loves embroidery a lot!
🥝 What’s your favorite trope/AO3 tag to write?
Dolores madrigal & Isabela madrigal, they are icons together like besties for life, NOTHIN can separate them EVERR! They are both so different from eachother yet so alike too- the best twins in Encanto 🫶
🍉 Do you prefer to write short fics or long fics? Multichaptered works or single ones? Why?
It depends on what part I am writing, if it isn’t such an important chapter it could be shorter but I mostly write longer fics because I like adding details ✍️ multichaptered works are the best, cliffhangers, a break in between its just a lot better in my opinion!
🍓 What’s a fic you’ve written you feel is underrated?
Im not sure, I haven’t really release any fic in my wip- most of them are unfinished and the other half is just something I wouldn’t post bc of my lack of writing 👊 but if there is a story I didn’t like the way I wrote it is the bad tragedy au one- I will definitely rewrite it and luckily I didn’t post it or anything cuz ITS 🚮
Thanks for asking :D
It's 12:00 am so here's a weird question:
So, it's midnight as I'm writing this, so my brain is braining in some weird ways.
Anyways, I was thinking about writing cuz I'm working on a WIP right now and realized most if not all of my WIP's focus more on Kaminari than they do Jirou.
That in itself makes sense. I think it's because I just relate more to Kaminari's character growth/arc (or at least the one he should've been given and is still like kinda there) and, as anyone whose sen the art I've reblogged, relate to depressed Kaminari a bit to much in general.
But here's what I was thinking about: Is that a problem? Because obviously with me having several WIP's communication issues come up in a couple. But because it's written from Kaminari's "POV" (I mean I write third person, but the narrative follows him and his privy to his thoughts exclusively so like... I guess POV is the right term?) i think it ends up putting Jirou in the "at fault" position too much, simply because I never end up writing her "POV" (Or if I do, there's less of hers than Kaminari's). And that isn't sitting with me right right now.
For some examples: I have two fics out on Ao3 right now. In the first one I wrote (SPOILER ALERT IG) in the second chapter there's a slight mixup and it makes it seem like it's Jirou exclusively who's at fault for that, which like, doesn't seem right, especially as the first chapter was just shits and giggles. Then in the second fic I wrote the whole premise is on a miscommunication but it's only written from Kaminari's "POV", so it makes him seem entirely not at fault? Especially with the dialogue at the end of the fic, which I still think the dialogue makes sense for both characters, but like, it still makes out Jirou to be the only problem rather than blame on both sides? idk.
So, should I just try and write more stuff from Jirou's "POV" to fix that problem? Because if that is the solution I'm still afraid of just like doing a shitty job at it because I don't relate to the character as much and then it still seems like she would still go in the "at fault" position for miscommunications and other problems. Or is it that I just need to get better at writing?
Anyways, thoughts anyone?